NPS Project Highlights

Type: Stormwater
The Opequon Project Team collaborated with the city of Martinsburg to create this rain garden to help control stormwater runoff.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
During EPA's 50th anniversary celebration new stories will be added monthly. This month's water category highlights the Muddy Creek success.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
Friends of Deckers Creek AMD treatment projects in the Kanes Creek watershed.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
Several projects designed to elimiate a significant AMD pollution in the West Fork River watershed.

Type: Natural Stream Restoration
The Piney Creek watershed has been plagued by high fecal coliform loads, with the watershed-based plan noting Cranberry Creek being of particular concern. Investigations showed the man-made pond at Woodrow Wilson High School as a major contributor to fecal coliform loads due to the abundant waterfowl community living at the pond.

The Piney Creek Watershed Association and multiple partners decided to undertake a restoration project that would transform the pond to a wetland, add an intermittent stream channel, and pollinator garden. These changes are more inline with the natural conditions, and will help reduce fecal coliform and other pollutants. Over time, natural processes in the wetland will trap-filter pollutants, reducing their impacts on Cranberry Creek.

Type: Natural Stream Restoration
Stream restoration and riparian buffers to reduce sedimentation and fecal coliform.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
Muddy Creek has been severely impacted by AMD for decades. Learn about the history and how partnerships are restoring Muddy Creek and the lower Cheat River.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
The T&T treatment plant and FOC projects have made a dramatic impact on the ecological integrity of lower Muddy Creek. Download the latest WVDEP-WAB report for details.

Type: Outreach
A USEPA Region III blog post.

Type: Outreach
The video describes the impacts of sedimentation from dirt roads on our streams and rivers.

Type: Outreach
Since 2009, WVCA and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) staff have worked with more than 120 farmers to install practices that reduce runoff of sediment, nutrients, and bacteria from livestock operations, achieving significant load reductions for fecal coliform and other pollutants.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
Partnership approach to AMD treatment in the Upper Buckhannon River watershed.

Type: Acid Mine Drainage
Creative AMD restoration efforts from Friends of the Cheat.

Type: Agriculture
A wide variety of agriculture BMPs implemented by WVCA.